Rolling Metal Thread 2010

I would be into that too! Might be a good way for me to fill in the gaps in my collection too.

Working my way through the whole Celtic Frost catalog

Me too, just finished my Roadburn build up feature on TGW and the Hellhammer book. Morbid Tales is still my favorite CF album, but really there's so much to love about that band, it's nuts. Tomorrow Triptykon will play its first show ever in Germany, very anxious to see which 1980s CF songs will be included in the setlist ("Mesmerized" has been mentioned).

I'd be up for some sort of listening club. I missed a lot of metal in my decades away - I'd love a guided tour.

How would it work? 3 albums per week of a specific era/scene/aesthetic and then discuss em starting the next monday or something?

I feel I've accidentally wandered into a bizarro world Friends set

I guess listening clubs aren't very kvlt.

more like Fiends.

Fiends is a great name for a listening club!

Question: Is everyone responsible for acquiring the albums or will there be a place they're posted?

I think it would be best if people were responsible for acquiring them themselves, just to keep any taint of the illegal from ILX.

Should be separate thread IMO.

There's always the advantage of Spotify for our UK friends and those North Americans who use it as well...though on this board that could still be a big minority.

If no one else has started one first, I'll start a Rolling Metal Fiends Listening Thread something something when I get home tonight. The real question is upon whose authority/advice we're going to be listening. We could maybe take shifts w/r/t our areas of expertise? Like I'd be happy to offer albums on folk metal, or oriental metal, or NSBM, whatever. (Stuff I've studied/studying.)

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maybe we could trade off weeks on a volunteer basis? and going by genre sounds cool but I think it'd be fun to leave the picks fully up to whoever selects for the week. (by genre or whatever else floats yer boat.)

i would like to participate but i don't know if i can commit to this ^^ . is there room for someone like that?

Why not?

I'm more than happy to listen and discuss, but some of you dudes make me feel woefully inadequate when it comes to recommendations and I'll be thrilled just to hear what gets suggested to listen to.

Why not?
I have 2 jobs and other things to do; I also don't do well with commitment (ask the CHILX book club)

No, I mean, why wouldn't you be allowed to participate? It's volunteer recommendations. Probably kerr will be in charge most weeks or something like that.

ok then
i'll give it a tyr

Im in charge of nothing, but doing a different genre per week is probably a great idea. But im no writer so I dont think i'll be contributing.

Wouldn't one of the real troo metalheads like skot or j0hn be the best to run it anyway?

or everyone could have a turn to choose the album to be discussed

I think just taking turns would be easiest. this shouldn't be work for anyone.

quick thoughts on the new cathedral:

* how great is the post-solo riffage 4mins into "painting in the dark"? one of those, "oh yes, this is gonna be a great album" moments for me.

* despite his subdued performance, anyone keep waiting for lee dorian to bust out a "midnight mountain"-style "OH YEAH" during some of this? caveat: I haven't listened to a new cathedral album since the ethereal mirror so I have no idea if the dude stopped busting out "OH YEAH"s like seven albums ago.

* best "kinda metal but mostly hard-rockin psych" album since the last (totally, totally great) witchcraft lp?

man, I have to listen to the last handful of cathedral albums now.

It's funny, the Cathedral fans I know seem to dislike the album.

you into it?

and yeah, this is no commentary on cathedral fans in bulk, but I'm gonna chat with a buddy of mine that loves the band about this one. I'm betting he doesn't like this album. it's pretty loopy!

I've never been into Cathedral much but i liked what I heard (to which the cathedral diehards I know said typical)

Mordy's Rolling Metal Fiends Listening Club (for all of ILX to join in)

just catching up on the past week of this thread now . . .

huge thank yous to Herman, Glenn, Alan, Nate, J0hn, and Jon for all your suggestions -- i now have a list of artists and album titles to look into as i keep working my way through all of these albums i've already acquired, some of which i haven't even touched or have only listened to parts of. if i wasn't limited by money and had Spotify or something, i can't imagine how much stuff i'd be swimming in right now

I believe there's a way for north americans to use spotify.

So reports are surfacing claiming to have confirmation that Peter Steele has died.

Yeah this seems to have some traction, there was a quote from one of Type O

Wasn't he the cousin of an ILXOR?

Tweeted by his gf, it seems?

sad news if so. guy had to be pretty young.

Wasn't he the cousin of an ILXOR?

Yeah, Roger Adultery.

what the hell has happened to http://www.terrorizer.com/ ?

It's moved to http://www.darkartsltd.com, which redirects to http://www.truecultheavymetal.com.

so they've scaled it back? A bad sign then. The mag will prob not exist in a years time

i would pick Terrorizer up if the import prices weren't so expensive here in America -_-

It's moved to http://www.darkartsltd.com, which redirects to http://www.truecultheavymetal.com.

I have some stuff appearing in Sick Sounds in the near future. It's a cool little Terrorizer spin-off, more of a gear, lessons, and features-oriented mag.

apparently they have a website: http://www.Sick-Sounds.com/

RIP Pete Steele. He was a self-aware cornball; lots of newer Marilyn Mason type fans didn't get that, I think. I used to be a big fan but lost track of him as I got older and his angsty image wore thin. I'll drink to him later tonight.

RIP. Type O Negative were one of the soundtrack bands to my teenage years, and I still spin Bloody Kisses pretty frequently. Guess we're never going to get a Bloody Kisses HOF now.

Listening to the new and final Xasthur. Long way from knowing how much I'm going to end up liking it, but it's very clearly interesting, and has at least a chance of summarizing and standing in for and maybe even superseding the rest of the Xasthur catalog. Marissa Nadler's vocals conjure a little more Leviathan into Xasthur, for me, which I consider a good thing, but more than that the compositions here feel hugely more varied and imaginative and invested-in than the waves of gray miserablism on the last few releases before this. Dynamic, timbral, harmonic and even emotional range! And maybe this is just me being my romanticizing-prone self, but I think the idea of a portal into sorrow actually goes a long way towards explaining the life-function of music like this: delineating suffering and emptiness as a separate realm, and looking into it not to enter it, but to understand how and that it is not where we are.

really, really looking forward to hearing the Xasthur even more than i was before now

have to admit that the marissa nadler has me intrigued and I never even bothered with the stuff on hydra head.

not that I have anything against it, I just never really felt like I needed more than one xasthur album in my life. but this sounds like it could be cool.